Re: Bug#75853: TONER CARTRIDGES
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 09:44:00PM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote:
> Yeah, I think it would suck. The -done address is perfect for precisely
> the bugs that are _not_ fixed by a particular version: "Not a bug", "fixed
> in foo2, will never be fixed in foo1", etc.
Another way of handling this would be allowing:
To: 123456@bugs.debian.org
...
Package: libfoo1
Closes: 123456
This bug won't be fixed in libfoo1 and is already fixed in libfoo2,
so you should simply use that. Debian packages are already getting
rebuilt for it, so that should be a simple matter of upgrading.
or similar.
(Which would essentially be a different way of accessing some of the same
stuff that you can use the "control" interface for; but it would still let
the -done addresses disappear, so spammers can't accidently abuse them even
more than they intend)
Of course, it's questionable whether that bug should be closed at all,
since it really is a bug, it merely won't be fixed. (Assuming it's a bug,
and not a "working-as-misdefined" thing, or something) So, in an ideal
world, it might be reasonable for it to still be visible when you look up
bugs in stable, even if it doesn't show up when you lookup bugs-by-maint
for your packages in unstable, say.
Cheers,
aj
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